22.03.2013The ex-President of Moldova, Chairman of the Communist Party MP Vladimir Voronin says he doesn’t really see a particular need for holding consultations with the Liberal Democratic Party to launch the procedure of discharging Parliament Speaker Marian Lupu.

...The creation of 2-3 subjects in the federation will lead to a deadlock, and may become a delayed-action mine for Moldova. In that case, a majority of the population will be represented by a definite minority in the bicameral parliament’s upper chamber. The document says that the Chamber of the Representatives consists of 30 deputies, and state territorial units are represented in it by an equal number of votes. Exactly these provisions have led to talks that Chisinau should also receive a status of a separate federation subject.

Part 2. International Presence in Transnistrian Settlement.

A prominent Moldovan political scientist remarked that the Transnistrian problem settlement involves not so much the conflicting sides (the would-be subjects of the federation or its state territorial units) but, rather, international mediators.

Part 3. Opinions Differ.

Presently, nobody, not even the Moldovan authorities, seem to be confident that the country’s reintegration may happen so soon. Gone are the optimistic moods that were present a month and a half ago. Certainly, Moldova is presently farther from the problem settlement than it was in late July. And only irreparable optimists may believe that the final document may be signed by the end of this year.

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